The following discussion presents an alternate strategy for evaluating how F.W. Taylor's managerial innovations affected Australian workers during the second decade of teh twentieth century. This is no straightforward task. In the first place, there is little agreement about the nature, degree...

In 1854, a select committee of the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament met to consider what measures were needed to improve roads and introduce railways in teh colony. The same year, the Sydney Railway Company collapsed when the costs involved in constructing a railway line...